House of Golitsyn
The House of Golitsyn or Galitzine (Russian: Голицыны, romanized: Golitsyny) was a Russian princely family. Among them were boyars, warlords, diplomats, generals, admirals, stewards, chamberlains, and provincial landlords. By the 18th century, the family was divided into four major branches. One branch died out while the other three and their subdivisions contained about 1,100 members.
| House of Golitsyn Голицыны | |
|---|---|
| Parent house | House of Gediminas |
| Country | Grand Duchy of Moscow Tsardom of Russia Russian Empire |
| Founded | 15th century |
| Founder | Andrey Andreyevich Golitsyn |
| Titles | Prince, Count |
| Cadet branches | Kurakins, Khovansky, Koretsky |
In the 1850s, the Russian memoirist Filipp Vigel despaired: "So numerous are the Golitsyns that soon it will be impossible to mention any of them without the family tree at hand". Of the branches that existed in 1917, only one survived in the Soviet Union; all others were extinguished or forced into exile.
The family produced many well-known statesmen, among them Vasily, Boris, Dmitry and Nikolai Golitsyn, the last chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Russian Empire.